Welcome to the 1000 Hours Outside Podcast. My name is Ginny Erich and back for the third time you are

going to be so thrilled about this one is my midwife and friend Beth Barbot. Welcome back.

Thanks Jenny, it's wonderful to be back.

It's so great.

I got so many messages after our last conversation,

so many messages about your voice and people would write it and say

I would just put it on before I would go to bed or I would listen to it here or there and

her voice and her presence is just so calming so if people want to go back and listen to other episodes with you on it, you're also on episode

154 and we talked there a lot about having a first aid kit and what you can have with you to help with the common things

that might happen when you're out and about, when you're getting your kids outside.

And then you came back on episode 164 where we talked about air quality issues and ideas for when you're

dealing with that and that can come up at any time it was coming up at that point

for the wildfires that were in Canada and we're in Michigan and so we were dealing with a lot of air quality issues at that time so you came back on then and like I said I just got so much feedback about your presence and the wisdom that you bring.

You have over 40 years of experience

where you've been with thousands of families

in and out of their homes.

And so really this is the podcast that we'd always talked about doing, which is in the fall here,

when a lot of people start to move back indoors for school, different types of things, the sun changes, we're not getting quite as much vitamin D the

days become shorter but a lot of people get sick and in this day and age we may not

want to be going into the doctor's office every single time.

We might want to be at home and we might want to try with certain things to work on different

remedies or see what we can do, see what we have in our own toolboxes to try and help our families through the on different

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